Moore’s Law Is Dying. TSMC and Intel Just Chose Opposite Ways to Survive.

One Is Building a Bigger City. The Other Is Inventing a Better Brick. Only One Strategy Will Win.

Source: TSMC

For fifty years, the semiconductor industry ran on one rule: make the transistor smaller, and everything gets faster. You did not need a strategy. Physics did the work. Every new generation of chip delivered 30 to 50% more transistors on the same surface area, and the entire digital economy rode that escalator upward. A single, consistent dy…